Dec 13 (Reuters) – Real estate stocks boosted Australian
shares to their highest close in a month on Wednesday, buoyed by
gains in shopping centre company Westfield Corp after
it received a takeover offer from France’s Unibail-Rodamco SE
.

HELSINKI/MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Russia’s state-owned
United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is looking to sell a
majority stake in its Arctech shipyard in Finland as sanctions
against the holding company hamper business, the head of the
shipyard said on Tuesday.

SOFIA, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Bulgaria has frozen assets and
property and bank accounts belonging to businessman and media
owner Ivo Prokopiev, who said the state was trying to silence
the country’s independent media.

PARIS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – The World Bank will no longer
finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019, apart from
certain gas projects in the poorest countries in exceptional
circumstances, it said on Tuesday, drawing praise from
environmental groups.

PARIS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron
plans to award multi-year grants for several U.S.-based
scientists to relocate to France, his office said on Monday on
the eve of a climate summit hosted by the president to raise
finances to counter global warming.

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Ness Technologies S.A.R.L., a
U.S. software engineering company, has sued Chinese conglomerate
HNA Group accusing it of failing to adequately
answer questions about its ownership in a U.S. review of
takeovers by foreign companies, thereby causing their $325
million deal to fail.